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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 August 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new eBook, Seamless Collaboration Accelerates EV Engineering. The eBook describes vehicle electrification engineering challenges met using Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) integrated and cross-discipline approach of their Xcelerator solutions. Siemens introduces Collaborative Virtual Development Ecosystem to provide OEMs with the needed platform for cross discipline and cross domain collaboration. Siemens, a proven provider to the automotive industry, is keeping pace with the emerging electric vehicle automotive engineering and manufacturing challenges.

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This webinar will show how a group of A&D OEMs reached a consensus on this industry-critical topic.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 15 August 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Developing an A&D Digital Twin/Digital Thread Position – a Lesson in Consensus Building.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 14 September 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

The Aerospace & Defense (A&D) PLM Action Group is moving toward an industry-specific product lifecycle...

Infor Nexus™, the leading global supply chain platform and a division of Infor^®, the industry cloud company, today announced that EFL Global will implement the Infor Nexus platform and join its logistics service provider (LSP) community. EFL Global, an international logistics and supply chain industry leader, will leverage the machine learning and predictive analytic capabilities of the Nexus platform to enhance its supply chain operations and better serve its clients.

Infor Nexus, a single-instance multi-enterprise business network platform, optimizes the flow of goods, information, and capital from source to delivery and payment. It empowers businesses to boost their overall supply chain...

One of the world’s most diverse textile and ready-made garment manufactures, Aster Textiles, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes by connecting more accurate planning and forecasting data across departments, in a bid to improve efficiencies, optimise its On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) and significantly reduce lead times. Aster Textiles was founded as a family business in 1993, in Istanbul, Turkey and has grown rapidly to become one of Turkey’s top 10 exporters of textile and ready-made garments. Still headquartered in Istanbul, Aster operates four large, state-of-the-art production facilities in Turkey and Serbia which manufacture...

The EMO exhibition is back after a 4-year break and will be held in Hannover, Germany from September 18 to 23, 2023.

The highly anticipated European premiere of the 17th version of SprutCAM X, a CAD/CAM system, and SprutCAM X Robot, an offline robot programming (OLP) software, will captivate visitors at EMO 2023, the world’s leading trade fair for manufacturing technology. SprutCAM Tech invites industry professionals, enthusiasts and the press to experience the latest innovations firsthand at booth E06 in hall 9.

The new features will be demonstrated live: The showcase promises to be an immersive exploration of the new features and...

Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division recently named Mattias Tidebrink to head the division’s Asia Pacific (APAC) region. He will be responsible for setting the strategic direction, focusing on long-term growth and profitability. “Appointing a leader of Tidebrink’s caliber underscores the importance that we place on the APAC region, where we have operated for more than 30 years,” said Steven Cost, president, Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division.

Hexagon serves customers in the APAC region across a multitude of industries, with the Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division supporting critical services – from public safety to utilities to government, transportation and beyond. The...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the appointment of Bill Panos as Senior Director, North America Transportation and Sheilah Brous as Senior Director, North America Mobility. Panos will lead a dedicated team in driving the growth of Bentley’s Enterprise Public Sector programs and transportation partnerships. Brous will focus on ensuring the delivery of best-in-class outcomes. She reports to Panos, who reports to Vice President, Regional Executive, Americas Ken MacArthur.

Panos brings four decades of experience in the government and private sectors to Bentley’s new leadership role. Previously, Panos was a member of governors’ cabinets in two states,...

Comprehensive Curriculum Helps Address Skills Gaps in New Workforce

Aspen Technology, Inc., a global leader in industrial software, introduced an industry domain training program for companies in asset-intensive industries who are onboarding recently graduated engineers. The comprehensive program is designed to enable new process engineers, control engineers, reliability engineers, supply chain planners, cost estimators and others to build industry-specific competencies within each of these roles.

AspenTech created the program specifically to help industrial companies navigate considerable gaps in industry domain knowledge as specialized senior engineers retire and a new generation enters the workforce. For example, in a recent survey entitled Gaps in...

Acquisition will deliver an integrated solution to help customers meet and comply with energy management and sustainability goals across the real estate lifecycle

Tango, a leading provider of cloud-based real estate and facilities management software, today announced it has acquired WatchWire, an industry leader in data and analytics that helps companies reduce emissions and energy expenses while simplifying sustainability and carbon reporting. The transaction further extends Tango’s position as a global leader in the real estate and facilities management space, enabling companies to meet their energy management and sustainability goals. WatchWire’s leadership team will join Tango to continue developing and progressing...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been selected as a strategic partner by the Government of India to transform the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) into a state-of-the-art public procurement platform with enhanced transparency, efficiency, and inclusivity.

The GeM platform provides an end-to-end online marketplace for central and state government bodies, including public sector undertakings, for procurement of common use goods and services in a transparent and efficient manner. This e-marketplace currently handles a Gross Merchandize Value (GMV) of over `2 trillion purchased by over 70,000 buyer organizations from over 6.5 million sellers and service providers, including over 800,000 medium and small enterprises. The...